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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were

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Cab Calloway
Age: 86 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 25
Died: 1994
Died: November 18
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Jazz Musician
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Rochester
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Cabell Calloway III
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